Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) · Texas

Dawn Cattle Feeders

Wildorado, TX · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dawn Cattle Feeders runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) workplace, earning a grade D.

Dawn Cattle Feeders: 7.4 TCR = 165% of Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dawn Cattle Feeders safety composite

Dawn Cattle Feeders scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Dawn Cattle Feeders: 0.0 → 14.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 14.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2017

Dawn Cattle Feeders's TCR rose 14.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 14.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112112 · Wildorado, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.4 · 165% of ind

  • DART 11.2 DART
  • RANK #43/48
  • PHOTO Gilcrest Feedlot
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gilcrest Feedlot (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dawn Cattle Feeders in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Dawn Cattle Feeders averages 7.4 TCR (165% of the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Dawn Cattle Feeders TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=14.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Dawn Cattle Feeders falls in its industry

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except s establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 48 Beef cattle feedlots (except s employers in Texas.

Dawn Cattle Feeders (21 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dawn Cattle Feeders
Dawn Cattle Feeders (21 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Dawn Cattle Feeders has fewer employees than the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2017 14.9 11.2 4 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112112 · TX · Wildorado

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Gilcrest Feedlot 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heifer Source, LLC 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reynolds Creek Calf Ranch 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Plains Cattle Company LLC - Sublette 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grass Roots Farming LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twin Lakes Dairy LP 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP TEXAS MAINT 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sandy Fork 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Beef Producers 30 FTE
NAT-TCR NSK20 - North Sky - Tacoma 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nashville (Tnlve) 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wallingford (Ctwal) 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Family Clinic - Regency 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4006 Mt. Aloysius College 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0774 - Albuquerque-Central, Nm 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0744 - Jasper, Al 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0725 - Easton, Pa 21 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.